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Friday, 18 February 2000

About web-logging

Link: Source Forge
Well, the world of the web-log is bigger than I thought. It also
appears to be a bit incestuous, which is an interesting paradox. I’ve
been adding interesting logs to my bookmarks for the last couple of
weeks, but it has become clear that I am not going to have time to
read them all.

I also can’t help but suspect that people pouring out their hearts and
souls on-line is just another manifestation of a talk-show desire to
“be famous”. As I said a few entries ago, seeing one’s words in print
is a buzz, and now that the Web is here, we can publish as much as we
like, as often as we like.

So, wise-guy, what am I going to do about it?

I don’t know, but maybe I’ll keep up appearances, and post URLs to
things that I think my adoring public need to read about.

So, here we are. Source Forge, a site hosting free software project
development. It looks extremely slick. I’m about to move across a
long-running project of my own. There’s already a blurb there about
it, but no source yet.